Martha was out shopping at the local thrift store one day when she came across a rather strange item. It was a shiny gold cardboard box, containing a bag of powder. Upon closer inspection, Martha saw that it was a bag of human ashes.

Right away, she knew that she had to reunite the box with a rightful relative.

She used the tag to find out the name of the man whose ashes were in the box, and she came up with Michael T. Boone, who passed away in 2014 at the age of 61. But there was no information on his relatives.

When she reached out to Fox 5 for help, the answer came very quickly.

Below, watch the incredibly emotional reunion between this woman who lost everything, including her father’s ashes, as well as the meeting of the two women who have both recently lost a loved one. The purely human connection and mutual thankfulness is a reminder that there really is a bit of good in this world, and that there is always hope, even when it really doesn’t seem that way.

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